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Barack Obama
By; Ashley Nixon
Barack Obama
• born August 4, 1961) is the President-elect
of the United States and the first African
American to be elected President of the
United States. Obama was the junior
United States Senator from Illinois from
2005 until he resigned on November 16,
2008, following his election to the
Presidency.
Barack Obama
• He is a graduate of Columbia University
and Harvard Law School, where he was
president of the Harvard Law Review.
Obama worked as a community organizer
and practiced as a civil rights attorney
before serving three terms in the Illinois
Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught
constitutional law at the University of
Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
Barack Obama
• Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in
the U.S. House of Representatives in
2000, he announced his campaign for the
U.S. Senate in January 2003, won a
primary victory in March 2004, and was
elected to the Senate in November 2004.
Obama delivered the keynote address at
the Democratic National Convention in
July 2004.
Barack Obama
• As a member of the Democratic minority in the
109th Congress, he helped create legislation to
control conventional weapons and to promote
greater public accountability in the use of federal
funds. He also made official trips to Eastern
Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the
110th Congress, he helped create legislation
regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate
change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned
U.S. military personnel.
Barack Obama
• On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama
defeated John McCain in the general
election and became the first African
American to be elected President of the
United States.[115][116][117][118] In his
victory speech, delivered before a crowd
of hundreds of thousands of his supporters
in Grant Park in Chicago, Obama
proclaimed that "change has come to
America